A Helpful App for Blind Subway Riders

A mobile app and guidance system concept called Lantern may one day help blind New Yorkers navigate the city’s convoluted subway system. The app works by communicating with bottle cap-sized beacons located around a subway platform, directing users to nearby turnstiles and notifying them if they come too close to a platform’s edge. The idea was conceived by Eugene Gao, a New York-based copywriter who …

NASA’s Long-Awaited Image of Pluto

Nearly a decade ago, NASA launched its New Horizons spacecraft into space, tasked with exploring our vast solar system and sending information home. After over three billion miles of flight, it has finally reached its ultimate destination: Pluto. Until now, details of the controversial dwarf planet have only been speculative—often describing it as oblong and gray—but information from New Horizons’ up-close encounter tells a different …

3D Print a Ford GT From Home

Dreaming of a new car but can’t afford one yet? Ford is filling in the void by offering up the digital files to five of their models, so that anyone with access to the proper equipment can 3D print one from the comfort of their home. So far, the files for the Ford GT, F-150 Raptor, Shelby GT350R, Focus St and Fiesta ST are currently …